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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

A field trial at the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation Inc. Rice Experiment Station near Biggs, Calif. (Photo by Ian Grettenberger)

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Begone Tadpole Shrimps! They're 'Time Travelers' in Rice Fields

November 2, 2021

You may have never seen a tadpole shrimp, but you ought to be concerned about it, especially if you like rice. It's neither a tadpole nor a shrimp, but a crustacean pest that feasts on rice seedlings in flooded rice fields.

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UC Davis distinguished professor Frank Zalom will receive ESA's highest honor, Honorary Member, on Tuesday, Nov. 2. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Celebration of ESA Award Winners

November 1, 2021

Tuesday, Nov. 2 will be a special day of celebration at the annual Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting, being held in the Colorado Convention Center, Denver. Tuesday is when ESA will honor scores of award winners at its Founders' Memorial Lecture breakfast meeting. The theme of the Oct.

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Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, addresses the crowd at the 75th anniversary party hosted last Saturday by the Bohart Museum Society. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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How the Public Will Benefit from the Bohart Museum's UC Davis CrowdFund Project

October 29, 2021

The public will benefit from the Bohart Museum of Entomology's UC Davis Crowd Fund, a $5000 fundraising drive that ends at 11:59 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31.

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A praying mantis "shopping for bees" on a sunflower, became the subject of one of Allan Jones' carved pumpkins. (Photo by Allan Jones)

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Hey There, Pumpkin! Prey Tell, Is That a Praying Mantis?

October 28, 2021

Hey there, pumpkin! Prey tell, is that a praying mantis stalking a bee? Well, if your name is Allan Jones of Davis, Calif.

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Christine Melvin's art work, transformed into a banner for the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 75th anniversary, features a hover fly, sphecid wasp, snake fly, bumble bee, aphid, twisted wing parasite and a tardigrade (water bear).

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Bohart Museum of Entomology Banner Draws Praise

October 27, 2021

A newly created, unveiled banner for the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 75th anniversary drew "oohs" and "aahs" when the Bohart Museum Society hosted a Halloween party last Saturday on the UC Davis campus.

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